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Young Freud
Nov 26, 2006

In other news, cryptobros mourning the loss of the NFT market...https://twitter.com/AaronSage/status/1649466781164240896?t=5XSCKvweIoA1kKJJfLD82A&s=19
My ape market all gone

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Owling Howl
Jul 17, 2019

Young Freud posted:

In other news, cryptobros mourning the loss of the NFT

My ape market all gone

Cryptobros speedrunning beanie baby culture.

Grater
Jul 11, 2001
Might seem like a nice guy, but cross me once...

Young Freud posted:

In other news, cryptobros mourning the loss of the NFT market...https://twitter.com/AaronSage/status/1649466781164240896?t=5XSCKvweIoA1kKJJfLD82A&s=19
My ape market all gone

Jebus crust this is hilarious. There never was a community, it was only there as wallpaper over the "investement" aspect.

It's dead because it was never alive to begin with.

Grater fucked around with this message at 15:55 on Apr 24, 2023

Absurd Alhazred
Mar 27, 2010

by Athanatos

Grater posted:

Jebus crust this is hilarious. There never was a community, it was only there as wallpaper over the "investement" aspect.

"Our get-rich-quick community was ruined by greed!!! :qq:"

Also, not surprised this genius and his friends are all nucheckmarks.

Kith
Sep 17, 2009

You never learn anything
by doing it right.


Young Freud posted:

In other news, cryptobros mourning the loss of the NFT market...https://twitter.com/AaronSage/status/1649466781164240896?t=5XSCKvweIoA1kKJJfLD82A&s=19
My ape market all gone

"it was so cool having a bunch of people identifying with the same thing and working towards a common goal! this has never happened before and will never happen again!"

mf have you never played a videogame???

i wonder how many cryptobros would be chasing NFTs if they knew about MMOs

Electric Phantasm
Apr 7, 2011

YOSPOS

Young Freud posted:

In other news, cryptobros mourning the loss of the NFT market...https://twitter.com/AaronSage/status/1649466781164240896?t=5XSCKvweIoA1kKJJfLD82A&s=19
My ape market all gone

Oh this is a twitter thread. Liked this better when I thought they were making a joke.

Absurd Alhazred
Mar 27, 2010

by Athanatos

Kith posted:

"it was so cool having a bunch of people identifying with the same thing and working towards a common goal! this has never happened before and will never happen again!"

mf have you never played a videogame???

i wonder how many cryptobros would be chasing NFTs if they knew about MMOs

I thought the use value (lol) of NFTs was that you could buy/trade them in MMOs and then transfer them to other MMOs? I wouldn't expect the speculation fetishists to understand that, but you'd think it would rub off on some of them.

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal

Absurd Alhazred posted:

I thought the use value (lol) of NFTs was that you could buy/trade them in MMOs and then transfer them to other MMOs? I wouldn't expect the speculation fetishists to understand that, but you'd think it would rub off on some of them.

That was one possible value, usually under the buzzword “play to earn”. No game worth playing ever had them and the ones that made moves in that direction got soundly rejected by gamers

The few games that were built from the ground up around NFTs immediately turned to sharecropping and were played exclusively by third world peons hired by speculators before they imploded

Grater
Jul 11, 2001
Might seem like a nice guy, but cross me once...

Absurd Alhazred posted:

I thought the use value (lol) of NFTs was that you could buy/trade them in MMOs and then transfer them to other MMOs? I wouldn't expect the speculation fetishists to understand that, but you'd think it would rub off on some of them.
I used to overthink NFT's, especially since I have family that is into them (trying to sell their own line...not a single buyer yet). The latest version of the trump cards finally drove the last nail into the coffin for me thinking these are anything other than the digital equivalent of those ugly foil stickers you can buy from roller rink vendng machines.

Alkydere
Jun 7, 2010
Capitol: A building or complex of buildings in which any legislature meets.
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Kith posted:

"it was so cool having a bunch of people identifying with the same thing and working towards a common goal! this has never happened before and will never happen again!"

mf have you never played a videogame???

i wonder how many cryptobros would be chasing NFTs if they knew about MMOs

Wonder what would happen if this idiot played Deep Rock Galactic for 15 minutes? Dude's head would probably literally explode due to the camaraderie.

Ah who am I kidding: he'd probably be one of the shitlords that just wants to do the missions as fast as possible so he'd be hosting a modded server that gives all the enemies 1 HP and kick any dwarf he catches mining gold.

Soonmot
Dec 19, 2002

Entrapta fucking loves robots




Grimey Drawer

Grater posted:

I used to overthink NFT's, especially since I have family that is into them (trying to sell their own line...not a single buyer yet). The latest version of the trump cards finally drove the last nail into the coffin for me thinking these are anything other than the digital equivalent of those ugly foil stickers you can buy from roller rink vendng machines.

Wrong, because those foil stickers are
A) real
B) You can stick on things
C) cool af

So basically, vending machines stickers are a better investment than NFTs

Grater
Jul 11, 2001
Might seem like a nice guy, but cross me once...
^^ don't get me wrong, 100% in agreement but that's why I said "digital equivalent." I guess I come from a generation where "digital equivalent" is synonymous with worthless and zero effort :)

Main Paineframe
Oct 27, 2010

Absurd Alhazred posted:

I thought the use value (lol) of NFTs was that you could buy/trade them in MMOs and then transfer them to other MMOs? I wouldn't expect the speculation fetishists to understand that, but you'd think it would rub off on some of them.

That was never actually a real thing. It was made up by NFT advocates as a potential theoretical use for NFTs, so they could claim that NFTs were more than just a speculative asset.

There were always three big problems with the idea, though:
  1. It doesn't actually require NFTs at all - it can be done perfectly fine with existing tech.
  2. The reason no one is doing it isn't because the tech doesn't exist, it's because there's substantial game design and business reasons weighing against giving people free items in your game based on their activity in someone else's game.
  3. The NFT games industry is even more subject to those business reasons than the normal games industry, because it's an ultra-monetized microtransaction hell that makes mobile games look almost ethical by comparison.

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal

Alkydere posted:

Wonder what would happen if this idiot played Deep Rock Galactic for 15 minutes? Dude's head would probably literally explode due to the camaraderie.

Ah who am I kidding: he'd probably be one of the shitlords that just wants to do the missions as fast as possible so he'd be hosting a modded server that gives all the enemies 1 HP and kick any dwarf he catches mining gold.

They would think "I'm not getting real money for this? What a waste"

PhazonLink
Jul 17, 2010

Main Paineframe posted:

That was never actually a real thing. It was made up by NFT advocates as a potential theoretical use for NFTs, so they could claim that NFTs were more than just a speculative asset.

There were always three big problems with the idea, though:
  1. It doesn't actually require NFTs at all - it can be done perfectly fine with existing tech.
  2. The reason no one is doing it isn't because the tech doesn't exist, it's because there's substantial game design and business reasons weighing against giving people free items in your game based on their activity in someone else's game.
  3. The NFT games industry is even more subject to those business reasons than the normal games industry, because it's an ultra-monetized microtransaction hell that makes mobile games look almost ethical by comparison.

ignoring that bullshit, just the competitive game balancing problems is bullshit.

like 2021 spring's had some big serious newspaper go "what if mario kart was an nft and there was one one mario and he's da best? you could rent-fhi34rfgtlk;k;gtok4ljgloihi34h

like okay so either real tournies or comp play bans the use of the objectively best NFTs or just allow the best NFTs to just do the same boring meta all the time. o

Teratrain
Aug 23, 2007
Waiting for Godot

Kith posted:

"it was so cool having a bunch of people identifying with the same thing and working towards a common goal! this has never happened before and will never happen again!"

mf have you never played a videogame???

i wonder how many cryptobros would be chasing NFTs if they knew about MMOs

You've seen the games these chodes have tried to make, right?

Young Freud
Nov 26, 2006

Elon brag tweeted about his subscription income and revealed he has a sockpuppet account where he pretends to be a 3 year old and likes and replies to a lot of bizarre and lurid poo poo.
https://twitter.com/theserfstv/status/1650686921738444800?s=20

Mercury_Storm
Jun 12, 2003

*chomp chomp chomp*
loving bizarre, the Tesla shareholders need to start up that lawsuit again I guess.

Clarste
Apr 15, 2013

Just how many mistakes have you suffered on the way here?

An uncountable number, to be sure.
Isn't this just kinkshaming? Unless there is evidence that he's committing crimes or something.

Edit: Not gonna read every tweet in detail, maybe there is.

Fortunate Bird
Sep 3, 2011
Yeah I'm not actually seeing anything interesting or controversial in that dumb alt account

Digamma-F-Wau
Mar 22, 2016

It is curious and wants to accept all kinds of challenges

Young Freud posted:

Elon brag tweeted about his subscription income and revealed he has a sockpuppet account where he pretends to be a 3 year old and likes and replies to a lot of bizarre and lurid poo poo.
https://twitter.com/theserfstv/status/1650686921738444800?s=20

https://twitter.com/theserfstv/status/1650687753745760256?s=20

Kith
Sep 17, 2009

You never learn anything
by doing it right.


what

the gently caress

is HAPPENING

Kith
Sep 17, 2009

You never learn anything
by doing it right.


Fortunate Bird posted:

Yeah I'm not actually seeing anything interesting or controversial in that dumb alt account

mans is roleplaying a toddler - his toddler - so he can talk about porn and subtweet his ex-wife

https://twitter.com/full_slack/status/1650671158478659584?s=20

you really don't see anything interesting or controversial there??????????? one of the most insane loving things that a human being could ever say???????????????????

Fortunate Bird
Sep 3, 2011

Kith posted:

mans is roleplaying a toddler - his toddler - so he can talk about porn and subtweet his ex-wife

https://twitter.com/full_slack/status/1650671158478659584?s=20

you really don't see anything interesting or controversial there??????????? one of the most insane loving things that a human being could ever say???????????????????

Where is the porn talk exactly? Is saying "I'm three" roll playing a toddler? I can't say I get wtf is going on with the account. It's all weird for sure but nothing really blowing my mind. Not the most offensive poo poo from musk this week for me.

Automata 10 Pack
Jun 21, 2007

Ten games published by Automata, on one cassette
I don’t know what to even say. I just want to scream.

Kith
Sep 17, 2009

You never learn anything
by doing it right.


Fortunate Bird posted:

Where is the porn talk exactly? Is saying "I'm three" roll playing a toddler? I can't say I get wtf is going on with the account. It's all weird for sure but nothing really blowing my mind. Not the most offensive poo poo from musk this week for me.

using the power of clicking through, this:

https://twitter.com/theserfstv/status/1650686924200497152?s=20

apparently the account has a bunch of really insane likes too, but there's not enough folding money in the world for me to check that poo poo myself

also yes he straight up posted about how he was going to be three years old soon, that's pretty spot-on for roleplaying:


just

gently caress

where to start

where to stop

Clarste
Apr 15, 2013

Just how many mistakes have you suffered on the way here?

An uncountable number, to be sure.
A man should be free to roleplay as whatever toddler he wants in the privacy of the world's public town square.

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal
…which he owns and has been actively ruining

Kavros
May 18, 2011

sleep sleep sleep
fly fly post post
sleep sleep sleep

Kith posted:

what

the gently caress

is HAPPENING

Elon seems to have inherited trump's formerly boundless powers to constantly bust through the bottom of our expectations. He's part of that "there is always more and it is always worse" empire now

Darth Walrus
Feb 13, 2012
Honestly, we should probably start to accept that this is just what happens when you give a pathological narcissist $ludicrous and hook them up to the attention economy. We're going to be seeing a whole lot more of it in the years to come.

Alkydere
Jun 7, 2010
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Capital: A city designated as a legislative seat by the government or some other authority, often the city in which the government is located; otherwise the most important city within a country or a subdivision of it.



haveblue posted:

They would think "I'm not getting real money for this? What a waste"

The idiots weren't getting paid real money before, just lovely procedurally generated ape pictures.

Also holy poo poo, how does poo poo with Musk keep getting weirder?

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

Exploration is ill-advised.
The fun thing about the attention economy is that it also has the tendency of the rate of profit to fall.

AtomikKrab
Jul 17, 2010

Keep on GOP rolling rolling rolling rolling.

Alkydere posted:

The idiots weren't getting paid real money before, just lovely procedurally generated ape pictures.

Also holy poo poo, how does poo poo with Musk keep getting weirder?

Drugs and potentially untreated mental health disorders which he might be trying to self medicate on. His relationship with what was her name? Grimes or whatever ending badly Also hilariously probably did not help his stability.

Kith
Sep 17, 2009

You never learn anything
by doing it right.


Alkydere posted:

Also holy poo poo, how does poo poo with Musk keep getting weirder?

a combination of "being totally insulated from consequences" and "being surrounded by delusional yes-men" will stir-fry anyone's brain. basically if you added billions of dollars to Koala's March you'd get Elon Musk

Captain_Maclaine
Sep 30, 2001

Every moment that I'm alive, I pray for death!

AtomikKrab posted:

Drugs and potentially untreated mental health disorders which he might be trying to self medicate on. His relationship with what was her name? Grimes or whatever ending badly Also hilariously probably did not help his stability.

It's a bit less hilarious when you factor in Musk getting noticeably more openly transphobic and replatforming a lot of formerly banned bigots of the same stripe not coincidentally after Grimes then hooked up with Chelsea Manning.

shitty poker hand
Jun 13, 2013

Captain_Maclaine posted:

It's a bit less hilarious when you factor in Musk getting noticeably more openly transphobic and replatforming a lot of formerly banned bigots of the same stripe not coincidentally after Grimes then hooked up with Chelsea Manning.

This also dovetails neatly with the news from last year about one of Elon's children coming out as trans and completely emancipating herself from him.

PhazonLink
Jul 17, 2010
its also a pretty decent case of a subject he didnt know even existed, but then suddenly got supa nova mad and demanded the world conform to his position.

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal
Another high-profile departure from Twitter: NYC's transit authority

https://twitter.com/MTA/status/1651711103573929985

Young Freud
Nov 26, 2006

Almost every post on Twitter now is someone asking for an invite code for bluesky.

BTW, dril has already made the move to bluesky.
https://twitter.com/Esqueer_/status/1651646738661253125?s=20

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Deathslinger
Jul 12, 2022

Young Freud posted:

Almost every post on Twitter now is someone asking for an invite code for bluesky.
I swear a month ago, this exact conversation was happening, but about Mastodon

Also how do we know that's actually dril himself and not an impostor?

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